Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-02-22
GATH.
He Visits Boston and Writes
aPnnd Of Gossip,
Which He Sends 70 the Gin
cinnati Enquirer.
Il. Mssss Peter Batter and Cleans frsn
His Masy Historical rasss-Jshn
HAaeoek's Homs-TAs Qainey
YAmily- -Amssiea's Oldest
Residence.

AAA4MAfFFt
RAmlly- Americas Oldest
Rsslsenss.
1nE nns IRELAND.
! asked Mr. Battles. - ~e crossed ths
main square ~ QaiBcy, sbat tsnoEnina-
fiou o1f there vas the strongest. he
usId tie Roman Catk0lica aaoo6 e the
hnad. fhnf sba CouGregAts0Baltsla ef ti1e
"a school came next; that TIRE kpiseo-
palians had the tbird place eonRreRn-
icon. he Unffarians the fourth, and tue
Beutlsss and Meihodists eaue - fer .
Fernnanf. How cuFious 70 - thai IN the
very bay wheKs every vessel from Mary. |
land VS. searched 10 old times 10 zee Il
Il had on beard papisfieaI books o.
images, ths Roman Catholics today |
ehonlA Be IN the majority. Yet shefe y
4 reason for this. The hamid climate
abeut Boston resembles that IT fFel4Da.
tbs fiah for Lent aud holidays ere
cheap and suit tte Catholics. Tue JOBS
20 90 about Massachusetts are SD Of The
Irish ssFt, Soon - diving cabs and
draws, driving faetoFy wagons, pulliDg
boats along shore, waiting on tables aud
IN tayeens. Massachusetts, hns become
the new ireland. We drove 70 The north.
eass, out Of Quincy, sad soon eame 20
Adams eohoolnouss, brick aud stone
construction, which stands on the site
Of John HAnoock's house, she Pfesident
81 Congress when the Declaration Of
Independence vas signed. Said 20
Mr.. ButisEs
.wha. hind Of 9 man vas Hancock
q homer
sHs vas the richest merchant IN
Massachusetts. Mis- father was q clergy
ran, bat be had Q rich uncle, Who left
him hte fartnne. He married e. Qnincy,
BY whinh he became connected with the
most Influential family heFeabout, Of
which one part vas loyal aud the etbeT
part rehsi. And, BY the way" said Mt.
Batter. ia seems 10 mo 70 be 4 shame
thai neither IN B0Nton nor So WashIBR-
con IL there q public statue Of John Han,
cock. He had the biggest foftane %
pat as TIE credit Of this Govsfnment 70
pressure is Independence. His inin-
oncs in Boston was the paramount one
He seems 10 be- forgotten"
Il seems that John Hancock was IN
England when George IL wa
buried. and saw the coronation ol
George III. A. "a years Of age be had
feFtuna watch oveFshadowea any mes.
camille fortune IN America. The British
government seized one Of bic tradine
vessels, wbeEeupon riot enssed, and
this eaussd Hancock 10 be particularly
hated by the British ofIiaiaiB. The day
after ! went b Quincy sag the win.
dow on the Old south Church through
which, Il Is said, Hancock was lifted 10
make 3 speech aboui the
BosroS MASSACRE.
He wns then only about 81 years old.
John Hancock used 10 ride about IN a
maQnihoenk eqnipaga, with gold, silver
and iaea ap0n his parnan, bis servants
Ia livery, and be gave card parties, con
ceFta, and was particular about bis
wines. Samuel Adams, distant feis
tive Of the Adamses Of Qalney. vas the
poorer leader Of the Boston patriots.
Hancock married Miss Quincy, and had
no children to inherit hrs fortune. 10
Justice IFsdel's letters tbare IL q 70
mark about him which would indicate
thaa he had more possessions thas pop
ulArigy. Iradell says that Mrs. Han
cock, having had hArA time for Hoae
years With q goety and irritable hus'
band, hae made haste 10 console herself
by her second marriage With Que Of hts
sea oaptalns.n Mr.. Butler appears 70
have very much respect for tue Quincy
family, and | think that the house be
lives 10 belongs TO this family, aud that
they refuse 70 part With Il, though they
do not wish 70 live In Il be therefore
obtains u for q very small rent, and be
has made Il into q wonderful museum
Of colonial aud historical MAssach uscits
Ona or bis daughters is married 30 Mr..
Peter Olney, Of New York, one OF the
Distfiet Attorneys there. Mr. Butler
was an intimate friend Of Daniel Web
ater in his later years, and was the favor
ite Of his son, Fletcher Webster, whom
be assisted 30 recruit g regiment, spend
inQ. some aay, az much a. $4,000 u hia
own money. l saw Fletcher Webster In
the early part Of the var 10 bis camp 40
CalpeppoF. Va. Peter Butler vas an old
Webster Whie, and be says that be vent
over 30 the Democratic party IN 1852,
when FFAnkiin Pierce was nominated.
because Mr.. Webster had passed the
word from MAFshheld that the Wings
had better yote with the majority Of
their oeuntFymen and that the Whig
party ives dafnnot, Since thai time Mr..
Better has acted aish ne patriotic var
Democrats.
WEARS A cooS3m car.
when met Mr.. Batter looked him
all osss qatstly, aud concluded that che
PEesidenl had rejected hin because Of
his eoaaskin cap. This gave him . real
Indiana flavor. Cleveland may have
thonRht shat Dan Veorheas bad pnt q
couaaitunnt upaa him on the ally. En-.
dicata mAy have aseu this Gap and fall
hin innar Feapeotabiliiy aFuased. When
she cap eame on Mr.. Batler's head there
uAs { whtie, haired man ef almost
Youthful favor, like q nut covered With
enog. de 4 g ycafs cid. bat wonia
pass almost anywhere for g. He - the
Faohisag az The fAeiflu hank, and iivira
nbsut eight miles from Boston. soEnea
Ia sometimes twice day. aa on this
day be went cut 70 show ne hts house
and came back and weat 30 work.
have lnel q little aketeh which was
published somewhere Of Sir. Rnticraa
residence. and. therefore, must describe
Il from memory. You knou that south
Of Bostoa sxteads broken shore Of the
great Massachusetts, Bay, which ktaps
AZ The biz granite qnArries Of Quincy.
Which have fsem senaote times faeniah.
ed bailding material. The ordinary
lintels Of doors and carriage ways ia
Boston are made OF a single heack Of
Qainey granite, ehippsd Of BY eater,
which sueils wedges % ehips.
TuR outScI FANNY
Il one thai 1atraugers run aealaas ia
every Part % Ncaloa. where taetr ma
merisi stones. staiaes and monuments
stand, and ysa 4 fancy thAt che great
majority Of the American people have
not the leaat idea Who these Qalncys
are, and understand them naeh les
than Ties Dc che Qatncy sore thruaa of
the Qainey granite. Iae l4sess Qainry
Aboas Boston Il Que 81 the lazders 81
he na1Rwamps. ASKED a Rfamtneul
editor IL kaston vhiSa were the DemA-
cratic leaders, be answered after rNase
tien; II sappoee THAI fFssident Eaat,
Of Harvard Cstlieae. y The moss sth steni
81 then. Two etheEs who De a rasd